I follow Brazilian artist Kiusam de Oliveira on Facebook, and she posted a link to an artist supply shop in Brazil that sells a pack of crayons to paint different skin tones. I immediately searched if there was anything similar in the US and I found this in [...]

Last night I watched the documentary Dark Girls that was recently aired on OWN. The film explores the concept of colorism, that is the discrimination of people based on their skin color. The difference with racism, is that colorism happens also between people of the same race, the darker the [...]

By now we have accumulated enough experience photographing our two Ethiopian children to share a few tips. Contrary to what many people think, not all professional photographers know how to take good pictures of black people, many even refuse to do it. I’ve read recently an article [...]

I went to the library today and on my way out I picked up the local newspaper The Portland Tribune. The front page news was about Vitamin D and its apparent link to numerous health conditions. I wrote about Vitamin D before, and how people with dark skin should take a daily [...]